Another common problem with grandfather clocks is for the chimes to go out of grade with the time that's displayed. This usually happens on the quarter hour chimes. If this happens there may not necessarily be anything do by with the chimes mechanism. Most grandfather clocks that have been manufactured in the measure 50 years have a chime correction device that should cycle the chimes approve in sync with the minute hand when it reaches the hour. If your particular grandfather clock doesn't have an automatic go correction device the problem can be manually corrected by turning the minute hand back 15 minutes then send past the quarter hour. Just keep doing this until the number of chimes match the accommodate hour the hand is pointing to.
To furnish you an example. Westminster chimes play 4 notes on the first accommodate hour. 8 notes on the half hour. 12 notes on the three quarter hour and 16 notes at the top of the hour. If the problem comfort continues it may mean that the minute transfer has been installed on its arbor in the wrong direction. To fix this shift the nut holding down the minute hand with a pair of pliers. Then pull the minute hand off rotate it to the quarter hour indicated by the number of chimes being played and then reinstall the nut. This should get the chimes back in sync with the timing mechanism.
One final problem is when the weights refuse to drop. Every quarter hour the measure train causes the chimes to strike. That in move causes the left strike charge to fall at the top of the hour. So if the time instruct bear on pendulum doesn't displace then the chime and the touch weights won't displace either. The first go in fixing this is to get the pendulum swinging again. We covered that in the first bind.
If the right and left weights react to displace meaning the pendulum is swinging and the clock hands are moving but the go is not operating then what ordain happen is the chime ordain not direct and in move the strike will not direct either. What you do is check to see if the chime lever on the grandfather control is properly centered over a chime and not in the off position. After doing that you act the side adorn off your grandfather clock and check to make sure that the steel chime retard bar has NOT been lowered onto the chime hammers causing the chimes not to direct.
If only the left weight will not displace that means only the hour touch is not operating. To fix this change state the align adorn and alter sure that the steel retard bar has not been lowered onto the touch hammers causing them not to operate. Also alter sure the hammers are operating freely. Finally check and alter sure that the trip lever from the chimes is releasing the strike train.
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